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Monday, May 05, 2008

Mars 1

http://formatmag.com/features/mars-1/

Very cool alien worlds by an intersting talent.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Six New Dark Knight Posters

http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/new-dark-knight-posters-of-plenty-6-new-ones.php

Can't wait for the movie, loving about half the posters.

Friday, April 25, 2008

Propaganda Design & Aesthetics: Soviet Retro Posters

http://www.crestock.com/blog/design/propaganda-design-aesthetics-soviet-retro-posters-118.aspx

Very cool examples, those commies knew how to design!

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Old Ordinary-Life.net Designs

Believe it or not I'm starting to work on a design for this site. As part of that process I wanted to look over my old designs, both those that were used, and those that never made it to the finish line. Have a look!

I'd love to hear any thoughts you might have, please feel free to leave a comment.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Cool business card designs, Part 2 | creativebits

http://creativebits.org/cool_business_card_designs_part_2

You can never have too many cool business card designs!

Science Machine

http://store.thebigpugh.com/product/science-machine

I want this, will someone buy me a print? I'm lovable! Be sure to check out the link that shows the entire design process.

Art On Tokyo’s Construction Fences

http://pingmag.jp/2008/04/21/constructional-fence/

Gotta love the Japanese!

Monday, April 21, 2008

the Geniant blog — The Fine Art of Wireframes

http://geniantsandbox.com/2008/02/28/the-fine-art-of-wireframes

Nice visual examples of sketched wireframes. The Behance Dot Gridg Book looks like something I might want to have.

The secret to making money online - (37signals)

http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/981-the-secret-to-making-money-online

A fantastic and fairly short talk on creating an internet based company while abstaining from the typical Web 2.0 idea of Build - ??? - Profit!

Book: The Last Lecture: Randy Pausch

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401323251/ref=reg_hu-wl_item-added

One of my very favorite talks is from Randy Pausch, and he's written a book to expand on the topics he covered.

CSS Bits - Vol 2 - Date Stamps

http://www.templamatic.com/blog.asp?BlogID=21

Some CSS examples of those calendar style date stamps often found on blog designs.

Sunday, April 06, 2008

Exaggeration with Maps

http://www.xefer.com/2008/04/maps

A great example of how scale in maps can screw with your perception of data

woork: Top-Down approach to simplify your CSS code

http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/04/top-down-approach-to-simplify-your-css.html

A good approach to organizing your CSS file

RiffTrax

http://www.rifftrax.com/

The head writer on Myster Science Theatre 3000 has a very cool site where you can buy a "riff track" full of jokes to make your dvd replays more interesting. Might try this.

The Highly Extensible CSS Interface

http://cameronmoll.com/archives/2008/02/the_highly_extensible_css_interface_the_series/

Need to sit down and read this one

About

Hi, I’m James Buckley.

I’m a 26 year old web geek with a background in design, usability and nerd-foo. I’ve been blogging designing commercially since high school and I currently work for Nutmeg Consulting as a business system analyst.

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